Put your shoulder to the wheel
You have generated
some intriguing ideas for writing about the wonderful photographs from Scotland! You
have some interesting details and have been very creative. You certainly have
used your imagination. Some of you have made good connections with your
photographs. It’s a good start. I think you can take these writings and really
turn them into some masterpieces.
Are you ready to put your shoulder to the
wheel? Want to make them worthy of all that outstanding photographic work which
Chris so graciously shared with us? That’s my challenge to you. Do you accept?
This part can be fun because we can all put our heads together and help each
other. Plus you have a head start with all the comments you have received from
your readers!
I see your writing as a good
start because you have your preliminary ideas on the blog. Now we need to do an
initial proofing of your stories. This is something we need to talk about a
bit. If you are proof-reading with only your
eyes your writing may seem to flow and be OK. I think many times we read it as
we are thinking it should sound and don’t always catch errors. What do you
think? Sometimes those little bumps and hurdles that the eye does not catch can
show up when you proof by reading aloud and listening. Let’s have a little fun
today. I am going to do a podcast of each one of your stories. Then you will
listen and we’ll all give feedback on this process.
Questions to think about:
- Does my story flow?
- Does it make sense?
- Is it sounding like I
thought I had written it?
- Is reading aloud a good way
to proof my work?
- Would I have read it the
same way?
- Can punctuation help? How?
- Did misspellings change my
meanings? How can I look out for that?
I really look forward to hearing your thinking!
Download LindseyPhotoStory.MP3
Download MichaelPhotoStory.MP3
Download VictoriaPhotoStory.MP3
Download DuceMariaPhotoStory.MP3
What a great idea!! I firmly believe students can HEAR their mistakes much more so than read them. Even I have that problem, and so I have to rely on others to proofread along with me. I will be recommending this to the teachers at my school.
Posted by: Cathy Nelson | November 22, 2006 at 01:41 PM
I'm trying this with 4th graders next week! Great use of technology as a tool to enhance learning!
Posted by: Kim | November 29, 2006 at 01:53 PM